With a growing concern around youth in gang and drug afflicted communities during the winter school holidays, the Western Cape Government has launched a youth holiday programme aimed at ensuring pupils are exposed to recreational and educational opportunities. During a joint press briefing with other departments at the Provincial Legislature[…]
Opposition parties called on police commissioner Riah Phiyega to be suspended or axed and Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa to face the might of the law despite the Marikana report exonerating him from any involvement in the 2012 shootings. Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane said the Marikana commission’s report seemed to[…]
The father of kidnapped South African Stephen McGown was happy to see his son in good health, and even still in possession of his watch and wedding ring. “Normally, I think these guys take people and they strip all their valuables, their cellphones, anything and everything else,” Malcolm McGown told[…]
The threat of transnational crime, in particular child trafficking, destroyed the lives of children and brought misery to their families, Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini said on Thursday. Speaking to media upon the repatriation from Malawi of two siblings, a 14-year-old and a 20-year-old, who were abducted from South Africa[…]
One of the ships taking part in a flotilla headed towards Gaza strip was sabotaged south of Crete, an activist aboard one of the ships said Thursday. Israeli-born Swedish activist Dror Feiler told Nazareth-based al-Shams radio that the ship had been sabotaged by professionals, and would have sunk if sailed[…]
Aid organisation Gift of the Givers has agreed to assist the McGown family in securing Stephen McGown’s release. “It is well understood that in situations like these there are no guarantees of success. It has been a very tough and trying time for the family having waited 3 years and[…]
French President Francois Hollande has condemned violent protests by taxi drivers against the car ride-booking app Uber, but maintained that the service should be taken off the road. Hollande, speaking early on Friday morning, described the Paris demonstrations as “unacceptable violence in a democracy, in a country like France”. But[…]
A growing backlash in Southern states against flying the Confederate battle flag spread to the U.S. Congress on Thursday when Democratic lawmakers aimed to remove the banner from parts of the Capitol, but it quickly ran into opposition in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. Representative Bennie Thompson of Mississippi sought[…]
Greece failed again to clinch a deal with its international creditors on Thursday, setting up a last-ditch effort on Saturday to avert a default next week or start preparing to protect the euro zone from financial market turmoil. Euro zone finance ministers ended their third meeting in a week without[…]
With doctors in South Africa facing an uphill battle to find life-saving organ donations, there remains a tremendous amount of uncertainty amongst Muslims on the Islamic perspective on this controversial issue. According to one scholar, it is permissible to be an organ donor on the condition that the person can[…]
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